Steel spacing furniture for printers.



L. C. HAY & W. S. MARDER. STEEL SPACING FURNITURE FOR PRINTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZB. I915.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

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L. C. HAY & W. S. MARDEIL STEEL SPACING FURNITURE FOR PRINTERS.

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'rn s ra'rns rarnu LEVI C. HAY, OFJERSEYGITY, AND WALTER S. MARDER, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW

JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO AMERICAN TYPE FOUNIDERS COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

STEEL SPACING FURNITURE FOR PRINTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. {Patented N 5, 19 18,

' Application filed May 26, 1915. Serial No. 30,595.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that WG, LEVI G. HAY, a citi-.

zen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, Hudson county, and State of New Jersey, and \VAL'rEn S. Manon-R, a citizen of the United States, residing atPlainfield, Union county, and State of New Jersey, have' invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Steel Spacing Furniture for Printers, of which the follow- 'ing is a specification.

, The present invention relates to a spacing furniture for printers use and consists in the combinations and arrangements of elements hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the accompanying claims.

The invention has for its purpose to construct such furniture from units or sections that may be readily assembled into the form of frames of sizes commensurate with the tration in the accompanying drawings,

wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the furniture made up,

Fig. 2 a transverse sectional view thereof taken on the line 2-2,

Fig. 3 a similar view taken on the line as,

Fig. 4 a detail perspective view of one of the furniture units and illustrating the connecting and locking means,

Fig. 5 a top plan View of a modified form of section,

Fig. 6 a view corresponding to Fig. 4 of the modified form, and

Figs. 7 and 8 elevational views of a modified form of corner piece.

Referring to the construction in further detail and wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in different views, the structure comprises a plurality of similar straight sections 1, and angle, or

corner, sections 2' connected and united by sultable fastenings in the form of a frame, as shown. Said sections 1 and'2 will be of various lengths to permit of easy adjustment.

of sizes. for complete furniture.

The abutting ends 4 of the respective sec tions meet in close intimate contact to afford a rigid structure, and the end portions of each section are cut away to provide open key-Ways, having relatively inclined sur-* faces, 5 forming wedgeelements adapted to necting the several sections. 1 r

The means for connecting ands'ecuring the several units of the frame consists of a pair'of similar wedge blocks. 6, that fit within the registering key-ways of adjoining sections, and .whose faces 7 co-act with said wedge faces 5, and a bolt or pin 8 carried by one of the blocks 6 has screw engagement with the other at 9 for bringing said blocks together and rigidly securing the pair of sections together. The. two blocks 6 are notched near one end, as at 10, to receive the stud 11 mounted on the section in the key-way, to hold said blocks in their respective section to the end of facility in assemcooperate with the fastening means for 0011- r bling and securing the parts, as will be.

understood. I In the arrangement shown 1n F gs. 5 and 6, the respective ends of each section are formed with curved recesses or depressions 1 12 on opposite faces thereof to receive the complementary shaped pair of blocks 13, and that portion betweensaid recesses and at the end is cut away so that each two adjoining sections form an opening at'14e to.

receive the screw-bolt, ortightening pin, 15 having a square head 16 for an adjusting key. The opening through the block 13 for said pin is countersunk so. that the head of the pm will not project above the furniture.

The straight corner piece 17, shown in Figs. 7 and 8, is of relatively short length and has key-ways 18 and 19 therein similar 7 to the key-ways 4 of the sections shown in Fig.1. Said key-ways are disposed at relatively right angles and receive the wedgeblocks to connect the adjoining sections in the manner described above.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, and therefore we do not wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claims.

Having thus fully described our said invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In spacing furniture, a frame comprising straight and corner sections, and a locking device therefor located at each of the respectire adjacent ends of said sections, substantiall as set forth.

2. In spacing furniture, a frame comprising assembled straight and corner sections, members connecting the sections, and inclependent wedge locking devices securing said wedge members and the sections together, substantially as set forth.

3. In spacing furniture, a frame comprising straight and corner sections ha ing registering key-ways, independent wedge members fitting in said keyways, and locking devices connecting said wedge members and securing the sections together, 'ibstantially as set forth.

4C. In spacing furniture, fran'ie comprising straight and corner sections having registering key-Ways forming cam elements, Wedge blocks engaging with said can't elements, and devices carried by the wedge blocks for locking the same to secure said sections together, substantially as set forth.

5. In spacing furniture, a frame comprising straight and corner sections having open keyways at the respective ends thereof, and the key-ways of adjacent blocks registering; wedge blocks wholly contained within said key-ways; and bolts having threaded engagement with said blocks to secure the frame sections together, substantially as set forth.

6. Spacing furniture for printers forms, comprising sections, parts of which are angle corner sections and parts of which straight sections, the se eral sections being" adapted to fit together with their ends abut- 1 ting to form hollow furniture and independout means for securing each of the abutting ends of said sect-ions, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Jersey City, New Jersey, this 24. day of May, A. D, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

LEVI C. HAY. [L. s]

WALTER S. MAR-DER. lL.S.l Witnesses H. O. EARTH,

\VILLIAM F. CoPrrnRrN.

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